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Old 8th May 2007 | 06:46
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bri1980
 
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Have you tried highlighting the files and pressing shift-delete? Hold shift and press delete at the same time.

Sometimes windows (I'm assuming this is a windows system) gets a bit confused about file permissions so:

Use an administrator account to try to delete if you are not already doing so.
Try the delete again after the machine has been turned off an on-sometimes this helps, sometimes not.

I have only once had a 'stuck' file that absolutely nobody could remove-even IT pros. It was removed when I (for another reason) reinstalled the operating system: it's certainly not worth the hardship of reinstalling the operating system for an undeletable file!

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